Quote by George Eliot
Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night. – George Eliot

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Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare ones self to do without it. – George Eliot

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In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness. – George Eliot

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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment. – George Eliot

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Some people never head a procession until theyre dead. – Source Unknown

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Under the wide and starry sky,
– Adlai Stevenson

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In the city a funeral is just an interruption of traffic; in the country it is a form of popular entertainment. – George Ade

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Funeral Blues

– W. H. Auden

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